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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Chapter 1. The Census and the New Nation: Apportionment, Congress, and the Progress of the United States 7
6. Chapter 2. Sectional Crisis and Census Reform in the 1850s 40
7. Chapter 3. Counting Slaves and Freedmen: War and Reconstruction by the Numbers 64
8. Chapter 4. The Census and Industrial America in the Gilded Age 86
9. Chapter 5. Building the Federal Statistical System in the Early Twentieth Century 115
10. Chapter 6. The Tribal Twenties: National Origins, Malapportionment, and Cheating by the Numbers 133
11. Chapter 7. Counting the Unemployed and the Crisis of the Great Depression 156
12. Chapter 8. War, Welfare, and the Census: Statistics for the American Century 185
13. Chapter 9. Reapportionment, Funds Allocations, and the Census 209
14. Chapter 10. Census Undercount and the Politics of Counting, 1970–1980 224
15. Chapter 11. The Undercount Controversies Continue 239
16. Chapter 12. The Census and the American Community Survey 251
17. Conclusion 266
18. Appendix 1. US Population and Area, 1790–2010 273
19. Appendix 2. Growth and Cost of the Decennial Census, 1790–2010 274
20. Appendix 3. Congressional Apportionment, 1789–2010 276
21. Appendix 4. Chronology of the States of the Union 280
22. Notes 283
23. Index 325